22 Jun 2021
The University of Liège has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period
Liège University Library collects data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides these data sets to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Paul Thirion.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 219 articles, total expenditure amounts to 369,423€ and the average fee is 1,687€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
71 |
96775 |
1363 |
Springer Nature |
30 |
69192 |
2306 |
Frontiers Media SA |
23 |
55254 |
2402 |
Elsevier BV |
22 |
40209 |
1828 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
12 |
20183 |
1682 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
10 |
15900 |
1590 |
Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
5568 |
1114 |
American Dairy Science Association |
3 |
5077 |
1692 |
MyJove Corporation |
3 |
8076 |
2692 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
4885 |
2442 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
2936 |
1468 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
1694 |
847 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2 |
4492 |
2246 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
623 |
623 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
709 |
709 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
719 |
719 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) |
1 |
1136 |
1136 |
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) |
1 |
1973 |
1973 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
2857 |
2857 |
AOSIS |
1 |
1122 |
1122 |
Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies |
1 |
789 |
789 |
BiomedGrid LLC |
1 |
973 |
973 |
BMJ |
1 |
1196 |
1196 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
1 |
399 |
399 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
1698 |
1698 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1802 |
1802 |
Global Science Library |
1 |
5133 |
5133 |
Graphyonline Publications PVT, Ltd. |
1 |
203 |
203 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1012 |
1012 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1961 |
1961 |
Iris Publishers |
1 |
563 |
563 |
Lifescience Global |
1 |
330 |
330 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1068 |
1068 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
547 |
547 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1006 |
1006 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
618 |
618 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1912 |
1912 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
704 |
704 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
1 |
330 |
330 |
Scientific Societies |
1 |
490 |
490 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2745 |
2745 |
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften |
1 |
200 |
200 |
Wageningen Academic Publishers |
1 |
1908 |
1908 |
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
1 |
456 |
456 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Liège now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

21 Jun 2021
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 255 articles, total expenditure amounts to 398,239€ and the average fee is 1,562€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
104 |
154490 |
1485 |
Copernicus GmbH |
45 |
75659 |
1681 |
Frontiers Media SA |
30 |
52350 |
1745 |
Springer Nature |
22 |
37569 |
1708 |
Elsevier BV |
9 |
10415 |
1157 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
12360 |
1545 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
11147 |
1592 |
IEEE |
5 |
8365 |
1673 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
5780 |
1927 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
3 |
2711 |
904 |
AAAS |
2 |
4000 |
2000 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
3224 |
1612 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
2836 |
1418 |
Schweizerbart |
2 |
3869 |
1934 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1919 |
1919 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
824 |
824 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
857 |
857 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
1790 |
1790 |
Exeley, Inc. |
1 |
571 |
571 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1977 |
1977 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1069 |
1069 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1746 |
1746 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1049 |
1049 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
580 |
580 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

14 Jun 2021
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 13 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 9 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 864 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,410,905€ and the average fee is 1,633€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (new)
- Université de Tours (new)
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc (new)
- Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis (new)
- ONERA (new)
- Université de Nouvelle Calédonie (new)
- Le Mans Université (new)
- Laboratoire national d’essais (new)
- Université de Lille (new)
- CIRAD
- INRIA
- Université de Poitiers
- Université Clermont Auvergne
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
214 |
287386 |
1343 |
Springer Nature |
160 |
286759 |
1792 |
Frontiers Media SA |
133 |
265628 |
1997 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
63 |
93473 |
1484 |
Elsevier BV |
61 |
127238 |
2086 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
35 |
70906 |
2026 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
18 |
32029 |
1779 |
Informa UK Limited |
16 |
29215 |
1826 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
13 |
20518 |
1578 |
IEEE |
12 |
17154 |
1430 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
10 |
22601 |
2260 |
Copernicus GmbH |
8 |
9098 |
1137 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
8 |
12558 |
1570 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
8 |
4579 |
572 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
7 |
20366 |
2909 |
American Society for Microbiology |
5 |
8338 |
1668 |
BMJ |
5 |
7943 |
1589 |
IOP Publishing |
5 |
8368 |
1674 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
4 |
6010 |
1502 |
SAGE Publications |
4 |
3129 |
782 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
4 |
4008 |
1002 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
3 |
4233 |
1411 |
EDP Sciences |
3 |
910 |
303 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
3 |
6915 |
2305 |
PeerJ |
3 |
2810 |
937 |
Academic Journals |
2 |
1011 |
506 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
1972 |
986 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
2 |
1438 |
719 |
ASBMB |
2 |
4200 |
2100 |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2 |
725 |
362 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
2474 |
1237 |
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) |
2 |
1436 |
718 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
1318 |
659 |
Scientific Societies |
2 |
838 |
419 |
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
1 |
408 |
408 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
American Meteorological Society |
1 |
156 |
156 |
American Scientific Publishers |
1 |
473 |
473 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
2633 |
2633 |
AOSIS |
1 |
503 |
503 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
1 |
631 |
631 |
Austin Publishing Group |
1 |
884 |
884 |
BioCOre |
1 |
810 |
810 |
Biomedical Research Network, LLC |
1 |
356 |
356 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
900 |
900 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
1 |
4215 |
4215 |
European Association of Geochemistry |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
Genetics Society of America |
1 |
1930 |
1930 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
88 |
88 |
Herald Scholarly Open Access |
1 |
855 |
855 |
Horizon Research Publishing |
1 |
259 |
259 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
2883 |
2883 |
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science |
1 |
704 |
704 |
Japan Oil Chemists’ Society |
1 |
255 |
255 |
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology |
1 |
11 |
11 |
Juniper Publishers |
1 |
502 |
502 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
894 |
894 |
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. |
1 |
975 |
975 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
2838 |
2838 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
Pan African Medical Journal |
1 |
186 |
186 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
540 |
540 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
2590 |
2590 |
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
1 |
1680 |
1680 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
1701 |
1701 |
S. Hirzel Verlag |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Science Publications |
1 |
572 |
572 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2571 |
2571 |
Society of Physical Therapy Science |
1 |
12 |
12 |
Southern Cross Publishing |
1 |
440 |
440 |
Symbiosis Group |
1 |
1187 |
1187 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1065 |
1065 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
345 |
345 |
VIBGYOR ePress |
1 |
169 |
169 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
